Science

Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.

What Bonobos Teach Us About Female Power and Cooperation

A Harvard scientist expands our understanding of our closest living relatives.

by Annie Roth

Harvard School of Public Health $350-million endowment

A transformative endowment gift from Gerald L. Chan and family

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

John Muir

A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Magnetic Waves show promise in treatment of bipolar disorder and depression

Researchers at Mclean Hospital develop a magnet that treats depression and bipolar disorder

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard's Douglas Melton creates functional insulin-producing human beta cells

Douglas Melton creates working beta cells from stem cells for eventual use in treatment of Type 1 diabetes.

Research into medical marijuana and cognitive function

Novelist Patricia Cornwell donates $500,000 to McLean program studying the drug's effect on cognitive function.

Harvard engineering dean Cherry Murray honored

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

$24-Million HSPH Gift supports research into metabolic diseases such as diabetes

Gift establishes the Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Metabolic Research.

Harvard professor Katie Hinde links harassment to academia's "leaky pipeline"

A Harvard professor helps link harassment during fieldwork to the "leaky pipeline.”

Tanya Smith, Harvard Professor, studies teeth and how to date them

Tanya Smith is a biological anthropologist who uses scientific methods to study human and primate teeth.